Dangerous Driving and Road Rage

[JBougie]

Worse experience I've had is:

Two days before New Years Day 2009, on a VERY snowy and icy day (everyone was going about 10MPH); my husband was REALLY sick (almost brought him to the ER) and we were going to run to Walmart to grab some medicine - well, we get off the freeway and onto the exit to the store, and as I was getting off the exit to turn onto the street we needed to be on; well this crazy mo'fo' came FLYING up on my a$$ for no reason what so ever - well, I was turning left so I was like "WTF is this guy doing?! He's crazy! If he doesn't slow down he's going to hit me!" well, he tried going around me and went off the main exit path around my drivers side went onto the less-plowed part and then jerked back over in front of me and slammed on his brakes.

Now, my husband was LAYING DOWN in the passenger side seat - the guy had NO idea that my 6', 230lb, solid husband was in the car. As he passed by on my drivers side he glared at me and knew I was a girl, seemingly alone.

After he slammed on his brakes, he got out of his car - in a very quick flash of time I was like "maybe he side swiped me and wants to check out the cars?" because I'm stupid. Well, he didn't - and that's not why he got out of the car. I opened my door and stood up right at my door - not even stepping away from the car and the guy came charging up and said "What the f*ck is your problem?!" and pushed me.

(See attached picture, I used my awesome MS Paint skillz and drew a diagram LOL)

Err - wrong move, buddy - little did you see, my husband was also getting out of the car. He just saw you put your hands on his wife - my husband leapt across the car and socked the dude right in the face and knocked him on his ass (he's lucky that's all he had done to him...). Well, the little wimp got all scared all of a sudden when he figured out he wasn't bullying a lone girl and called the cops and pressed assault charges against my husband. We laughed because HE was the one who got OUT OF HIS CAR and instigated the altercation ... so off to court we went .....(shortened version of the events following the guy laying there like a beotch with a bloody face)

My husband ended up having to plead down to Disorderly Conduct because he would get fired if he took it to trial, but in the state of MN - our plea of self-defense did not work because even though he was defending his wife, self-defense of others only works when you use equal or less force than the assaulter did - since that d-bag only pushed me, when my husband rearranged his nose for him it was considered assault.

I won't even drive in that area alone anymore, and I will only drive my car when I have to be over there (we were in his car at the time of the incident). I am still afraid he is going to see me in public and come after me in retaliation - it's kinda scary. And I'm no little girl (I'm 5'10" and chunky lol) but I still worry.

Roadrage is not cool guys. Not cool at all. I carry a survival claw knife on me everywhere I go and my motto now is "Stab now. Ask questions after they're on the ground holding their jugular." If it wasn't for my husband, I have no idea what would have happened that night. And that's scary. So now I am even more paranoid than before. Which is pretty bad because I had 0 faith in humanity before that. lol